TREE SWASTIKAS

Germany's infamous giant swastika of trees in a forest north of Berlin just will not die. Two days after the government said it had obliterated a 200-by-200-foot swastika of golden larch trees visible only from the air, a local pilot said Wednesday that it could still be clearly seen. "It is just as clear as it was before," said Lutz Priebsch, a local pilot who flew over the Nazi symbol Tuesday after foresters tried to disfigure the symbol by chopping down some of the trees. "I took photographs yesterday and there is no noticeable difference with what it was before." A devoted Hitler follower planted the swastika 60 miles north of Berlin in 1938.